Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of what the 21st annual awards told of the state of the cinema in 1948 lay in the presentation shindig itself. Planned in Hollywood's new economy, the affair was low-budgeted and undersized compared to past performances of the town's most profitable yearly publicity stunt. Only two searchlights cut into the overcast outside the theater; half a dozen blocks away, three Hollywood searchlights blazed gaudily for the opening of a new self-service gas station...
...soon finds out, when the Goddess herself appears in the form of an unscrupulous female named Erica-a "triple-faced, ash-blonde bitch" with whom Poet Venn-Thomas had had a gruesome love affair in the Late Christian Epoch. What Erica does to overcivilized New Crete is something awful. She plants some 20th Century cigarettes in the closet of a cute little nymph named Sapphire; she fouls up the witches, hexes the horses, mortifies the magicians. By the time she's through, New Crete is on the verge of collapse-at which point Poet Venn-Thomas sensibly decides...
...proceeds from the bazaar, the third annual affair since the war, will benefit the World Student Service Fund...
Fraternity pledge week at Brown University, as on many another U.S. campus, is traditionally a raucous, roughhouse affair. Last week, with one undergraduate dead and others in bandages, shocked Brown students themselves admitted that their happy customs had gone...
Even in the most careful circles mistakes do happen. However, a close survey of last week's affair will show it is a thing of wonder that there was nothing more exciting that 97 misplaced votes...